Crazy Crafty

I really wish I had gotten pictures of the teacher gifts I made...but alas....  They involved paper, ribbons, glue, letters, tags, wires, candy (if only I was good enough to make my own), and a few school supplies.  They were fun.

Here are some pictures of the queen size quilt top I've been working on.  It is a blooming nine patch.

I am far enough along in one of my other projects (I'll get there in a minute) that I feel I can get back to this one for a couple days.  My blocks are all ready and just need to be sewn into my rows and then the rows together.  I'm hoping to stipple the quilt together but I've never done stipple and I'm a little nervous.  I'm thinking of doing a mini quilt to practice on before tackling the queen size.

And I know I've mentioned my pile 'o projects so I'm not sure what I was thinking in joining a quilt-a-long.  I've never joined any kind of internet related project so this is definitely new to me.  My problem is that this quilt-a-long is meant to help people reduce their scrap pile.  My problem is that I don't have enough of a scrap pile to do this.  I've had to go buy fabric just to do this.  Oh well, I'll have scraps now for another project.  Anyway, this project is to do one nine patch a day.  Today is day 24.  I have 30 now.

I haven't figured out what I'm going to do with this yet though.  I have half girly blocks and half boyish blocks.  Am I going to make two quilts, or combine them to make one???  We'll see.  Based on that decision will be the decision on the sashing between the blocks.  Since this project has a time frame I've put off the queen size quilt to work in this.  But now that I'm a little ahead I'm going to put a couple days on the green one.

Now here is the project I've been keeping secret for some time.  I saw in a magazine one day that someone embroidered kids' handprints and left them in a sewing hoop and hung it on the wall.  I thought that that was a fantastic idea but I didn't like the hoops so much.  I came up with this.

This pillow is what I made for my grandmother's birthday in April.  Hope is on one side and Gabe on the other.  This is only the second time I've embroidered anything (the first time being at Christmas).  I think it came out pretty good.  I don't like Gabe's name very much, but hey, you can read it...  I hope Great Grandma liked it.  It was made very special just for her...with every stitch.  As of '09 these are the only great grandkids.